Thanks for the posts. I did a system restart, deleted and reinstalled all of the apps that were in the last update list when the problem started happening. Sure enough, within 5 minutes the problem is back.
I installed an app called MemoryInfo but it is no help. (even it crashes)
EVERY app crashes within a couple of minutes and goes back to the menu. This is REALLY bad, the my ipad is really bricked at this point. I guess that the only way this is going to get fixed is to delete ALL of the apps, redownload them and reset as a new ipad. This is going to take 4 - 5 hours (105 apps) and reset all of my mail and other account passwords. I am also upset (****** off) that there is no way to close all apps that are running with one command.
I really feel embarrassed for the Apple engineers that something like this can happen and there is no tool to fix a problem like this other than to do a complete reset and start over.